Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Workers try to clean up Australian beaches but it looks like a long haul BRISBANE: Wildlife workers rescued turtle eggs and captured a few oil-coated pelicans off Australia
By Jithendra Antonio The Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA), on behalf of the Chairman, Cabinet Appointed Negotiating Committee and Secretary to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources is tendering a
MORMUGAO, NOV 11: Claiming that contamination of water due to seepage of petroleum is a serious issue, Deputy Speaker Mauvin Godinho has threatened to support public agitation against an oil company located in the vicinity. He was speaking to oil company officials during a joint inspection along with various government …
VASCO, NOV 4 Verna police on Tuesday registered an offence of negligence and defiling of rivulet and wells in Jina-Sancoale after receiving complaint from the Mormugao deputy collector
VASCO, NOV 3 In a joint inspection carried by various government bodies, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Monday collected samples from contaminated rivulets which burst into flames on Saturday evening at Shindolim-Jina, Sancoale for examination. GSPCB Consultant Scientist Dr Simon D
NAZIRA, Oct 13: The ONGC(L) though booking profits from the crude oil of Asom yet it seems to be reluctant to give thought to the problems of oil field areas. Such an oil field is Geleki where more than 20 oil drilling stations are there. The drilling stations are polluting …
Experiments are carried out to determine simultaneous one-dimensional spatial concentration distribution of spilled petroleum in three soils (sandy, loamy and topsoil) in the horizontal and vertical directions. It is shown that the horizontal spread is very slow and the volume of petroleum spilled has minimal effects on the extent of …
Palak Shah / Mumbai September 3, 2008, 0:40 IST Over 100 chemical storage tanks built at the Pirpav jetty near Chembur have been operating without approvals from the ministry of environment and forests for over 18 years. Each of these tanks has an average capacity of 200,000 kilolitres of oil. …
The concept of ecosystem services has received significant attention since the appearance of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment(MA). Ecosystem services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. The MA has subdivided ecosystem services into four categories: provisioning such as the production of food and water; regulating, such as the control of …
On 30 May 2006, a bulk carrier, MV Ocean Seraya ran aground along the Karwar coast spilling 650 tonnes of oil. Due to the rough SW monsoon, the spill spread to some beaches in south Goa. The aim of this communication is to study the immediate impact of oil spill …
QUITO: President Rafael Correa of Ecuador says he plans to meet with officials and lawyers from Chevron on behalf of 30,000 jungle residents who are suing the U.S. oil giant for up to $16 billion over environmental damage. Peasants and Indians are suing Chevron in an Ecuadorean court over charges …
This volume is part of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being that offers outstanding recent work in the transdisciplinary field of ecological economics, whose focus is the study of the relationship between economic activity and environmental sustainability. Recent decades have witnessed a profound transformation in regulatory regimes that shape …
Valdez Victims Spurned: Almost 20 years of legal battle ended in frustration for victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, as the US supreme court reduced an earlier damages award of $2.5 billion to $507 million. The new figure amounts to just $15,000 for each of the plaintiffs, a group …
Raktima Bose The Bangladeshi barge m v Nilam moments before it sank. A Bangladeshi barge, on its way to the Narayanganj inland port, sank in the Hooghly river after it ran aground hitting an island at Noorpur in South 24 Parganas district on Monday. The barge was carrying 700 tonnes …
A week after fishermen complained of oil wastes polluting the Mahul creek and after the RPF police instructed Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) officials
pollution liability: Several oil majors in the US have agreed to pay up US $423 million in what is billed as the largest settlement over drinking-water contamination involving 153 public water utilities in the country. The water utilities from 17 states filed a class-action lawsuit in 2003 complaining that a …
Researchers in the United States announced on Friday they had created a paper-like membrane made of nano-scale materials that could clean up oil pollution and other chemical spills. The substance can absorb up to 20 times its own weight in oil and be recycled again and again for future use, …
The Nankan River in Kumamoto Prefecture was hit by a 5,000-liter oil spill Friday after a nearby food processing plant stocked up on more oil than usual before a gas surcharge was reinstated earlier in the week. Iwamoto Co., based in the town of Nankan, had increased its stores of …
Jim Roberts and colleagues inhaled petrochemical fumes and navigated between ships and oil platforms in order to understand halogen chemistry in the Houston area and along the Texas coast.
